Silent Land

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‘Silent Land’

Spain’s Reverso Films has scooped up rights to Aga Woszczyńska’s Toronto title Silent Land and Ukrainian director Valentyn Vasyanovych’s Reflection, both being sold by Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales at the EFM.  

New Europe is also reporting a Romanian pre-sale to Follow Art Distribution for Dorota Kobiela’s hand-painted animated feature. The Peasants. The ambitiousu film will be Kobiela’s follow-up to the Oscar-nominated Loving Vincent. 

Meanwhile Japan’s Skouil and the former Yugoslav territories’ Kino Mediteran have bought Matías Rojas Valencia’s A Place Called Dignity, the dark Chilean drama that screened at Tallinn Black Nights, that New Europe is also selling at the EFM. 

At the Berlinale, New Europe is selling two films in official selection: Michael Koch’s competition title A Piece Of Sky, and Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson’s Icelandic drama Beautiful Beings, that is playing in Panorama.

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